New Icelandic volcano eruption could have global impact (BBC)

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By Jane O'Brien
BBC News, Reykjavik

Hundreds of metres under one of Iceland's largest glaciers there are signs of a looming volcanic eruption that could be one of the most powerful the country has seen in almost a century.

Mighty Katla, with its 10km (6.2 mile) crater, has the potential to cause catastrophic flooding as it melts the frozen surface of its caldera and sends billions of gallons of water surging through Iceland's east coast and into the Atlantic Ocean.

"There has been a great deal of seismic activity," says Ford Cochran, the National Geographic's expert on Iceland.

There were more than 500 tremors in and around the caldera of Katla just in October, which suggests the motion of magma.

"And that certainly suggests an eruption may be imminent."
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15995845

[Lucinda]

1. Thank you for the link! The video was quite interesting too.

:hi:

[Warpy]

2. That one has erupted in tandem with the one that erupted last year

many times in the past, the eruptions separated by anything from weeks to a couple of years.

Of the two, Katla is the worse. The ash cloud is likely to knock out air travel in Europe for far longer.

[pansypoo53219]

3. i better keep an eye on that volcano live cam.

so far just for sunsets. dawn is past 3am now.

[highplainsdem]

4. K&R

[Odin2005]

5. Uh-Oh!!!

[MsKandice01]

6. There's a word for this among geologists/volcanologists...

Fear mongering, or more specifically, Katla mongering. Katla is rumbling, yes, but it's actually more quiet now that it was a month ago. No reason to believe it's going to blow any second now.